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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Roddy on March 07, 2016, 09:05:23 PM
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With the death of warhammer and unrelated demise of my flgs I became limited on how many games I could play. And, with less dice rolling activities, came more time to obsess over small little projects.
Project Concept: Time is cheap, money not so much, so let's make a tiny frugal army for AoS/KoW/Warhammer of Chaos/Abyssal Dwarfs and try to recycle as much as minis as I can.
Abyssal whatchamacall it /Random infantry mooks that will make the core of it all: It all started when me and a friend went halfzies with Mantic's 2 player box, I got the dwarfs and after assembly and prime they got abandoned in a box ... until now! With a box of tacks, tiny little head drilling and some beard sculpting, I ended up with 15 chaotic stunties and a mascot, for tray play i'll still need to find a suitable unit filler though.
(http://i.imgur.com/lKK3d5G.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/mG673n4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/F7eydUp.jpg)
The canon: Using a cork as a base, I tried to get some "metal looking" plates (with debatable effectiveness). The "demon" is a mantic zombie with an animal skull from an old GW skeleton kit.
(http://i.imgur.com/65TL396.jpg)
Bull Taurus (still WIP): I bought a couple of farm animal toys to see if I could make Bull Centaurs out of them but alas, no luck with the scale so I retrofitted the bull with some wings and a couple of green stuff plating, put a dwarf surfing on top of it and went to town.
(http://i.imgur.com/S2SVETc.jpg)
Thanks for looking and that's it for now :)
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Interesting stuff you are doing there. Looking forward to seeing how they turn out.
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Lovely and very inspirational stuff. Many many things to like here.
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I can't decide if those push-tack hats are madness, or brilliance, or both.
Really nifty conversions! I especially like the flame effect between cannon and cannonball.
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Ooooh great stuff!
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UBERCOOL, IMAGINATIVE, & somewhat NUTS! That's my kind of stuff...a GREAT START to a FINE project.
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Love the creativity - very inspiring!
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What an idea for those samowar hats!
I'm stunned speechless.
Keep on telling what you do with those figures, please!
Cheers
GS
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Inspired.
Looking forward to seeing how you paint them up when done, especially the hats, brilliantly simple, and effective.
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These hats are quite innovative! I wonder how they're going to look on the painted models.
The cannon and the bull give me the impression that you're not inclined to accept boundaries when modeling. Very good!
I reckon this is going to be a fun thread to follow. Now I just have to find that popcorn making machine in the attic...
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Many thanks for all the replies, I hope to keep you all interested in this thread in the future as well :D
As a small update:
The flying bull is now finished and everything will be primed and painted hopefully starting tomorrow.
On top of that, my tehnolog order arrived from the land of ebay and next on the chopping block will be 7 centaurs (6 for the unit and one for the hero). The rest will be turned into statues for frostgrave or fill the ranks of my undead army.
(http://i.imgur.com/KTpkq0g.jpg)
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That little saxon dude is looking severely outmatched. :D Looking forward to the chopping. Those centaurs seem like they'll make a good base.
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Those centaurs look promising. And you can't but love a dog with a beard.
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What are those latest editions please and where on eBay did you get them as they look kinda interesting for several projects.
Cheers Roo
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What are those latest editions please and where on eBay did you get them as they look kinda interesting for several projects.
Cheers Roo
Tehnolog is the name of the manufacturer and I got them all from this fella -> http://stores.ebay.co.uk/toyscraftsfromrussia/Tehnologs-soldiers-machines-/_i.html?_fsub=9423402015
If anyone needs some comparison photos just say the word.
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MMM some interesting stuff there cheers. Assume 40mm and soft plastic?
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Closer to 54-56mm from feet to the top of the head, donno if soft plastic is a catch all name but this doesn't feel soft at all, it actually looks like bending might almost lead to shatter.
The best comparison I can think of right now is game pieces, particular the ones that came with my version of catan.
http://www.spielematerial.de/en/settlements-plastic-version.html
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Small update on my project as I finally started spilling paint on the miniatures
Bull Taurus with a dwarf on it/Drazhoath the Ashen. I'm really not feeling the wings, I expected the hot glue used to give the wings some body would end up with a passable texture but with the paint on it I can clearly see that is not the case.
(http://i.imgur.com/Uc0mHIu.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/UPqckiP.jpg)
A demonbound war engine that may work as a magma canon, mortar or just canon
(http://i.imgur.com/2yD23HW.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wlOWqdN.jpg)
Family photo so far
(http://i.imgur.com/kQiWGVJ.jpg)
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I like your fire effect painting!
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The project is not dead, but on hold because ... because lol
In the meantime I used a couple of those tehnolog big skeletons to make a trio of Ushatbi for my Vampire Counts army.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9D0vRSAgwUU/V87UdIZdJaI/AAAAAAAAElQ/OxXchengKrgQCAqcku5fbv7ZVCzTMkzxgCLcB/s1600/20160905_133509.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DpsxYsT5wEk/V9FqdTvDl5I/AAAAAAAAEnY/fbFA3ADl4qYgyLY_OHrKH5KyyB2BPbqhACLcB/s1600/20160908_141641.jpg)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TV-woeh_nOE/V9miazjxhQI/AAAAAAAAEvA/dpMHwkRWpMMzVAm2lWX-HZlzVCmlRxCuACLcB/s1600/20160914_194731.jpg)
Most of the thought process behind this can be found on my blog (http://blog.siarom.net/2016/09/idols-of-death-vampire-counts-themed.html).
Sorry for the light (or lack of it) in the photos, I really struggle to get decent pictures with my current setup.